Suspender-buckle



No. 623,489. Patented Apr. I8, I899. J. F. MULLOY. SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

(Application filed Oct. 24, 1898.) (No Model.)

IINITED STATES ATENT rrrcn.

JAMES F. MOLLOY, OF \VEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-IBUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,489, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed October 24,1898. Serial No. 694,368- No model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. MoLLoY, of lVest Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Suspender-Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view in front elevation of a buckle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a rear view thereof; Fig. 3, a view thereof in end elevation; Fig. 4, a detached view, in front elevation, of the bodyplate; Fig. 5, a detached perspective view of the wire bar; Fig. 6, a detached view, in inside elevation, of the lever.

My invention relates to an improvement in Suspender-buckles, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture a combined sheetmetal and wire buckle which shall not only be simple, durable, and efiective in use, but present a compact, neat, and workmanlike appearance.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a buckle having certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown I employ a wire bar A, upon which the sheet-metal lever B is suspended, the said lever being provided for its pivotal attachment to the bar with two tubular ears B B, located at opposite ends of its serrated inwardlyturned gripping-flange B Theends of the said bar are provided with supporting-arms A A, extending downwardly at a right angle and having their extreme lower ends bentinward, as at A A The upper ends of these supporting-arms are bent forward, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, so that the bar may stand well in front of the body-plate O of the buckle. The said body-plate may be of any approved form and is provided at its ends with leaflike fingers O O, which are clasped over supporting-arms A A of the wire bar at points midway between the outwardly-bent upper and the inwardly-bent lower ends of the said arms, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The lower portion of the body-plate is formed with a long narrow horizontally-arranged opening C designed to receive the end of the webbing D, which is passed through it from the rear of the said body and turned downward to form a short loop and secured in place by stitching d or in some equivalent way. For the accommodation of the inwardly-bent lower ends A of the said supporting-arms the lower portion of the body-plate O is set back of the plane of the upper portion thereof, a shoulder C being thus formed. The said ends of the arms coact with the said shoulder in the bodyplate to lock the arms against upward movement, while the bends in the upper ends of the arms coact with the fingers (3' O to prevent the arms from downward movement. By bending the lower ends of the arms inward, as described, they are cleared from the path in which the webbing moves up and down between the body-plate of the buckle and the lever thereof, so that the webbingis prevented from fouling with the said ends of the arms. It will also be observed that by setting the lower portion of the body-plate back of the plane of the upper portion thereof, as described, clearance is provided for the loop formed by attaching the end of the webbing to the body-plate, the outer face of the said loop being substantially in the plane of the upper portion of the plate, over which the main portion of the webbing rides.

If desired, the ends of the supporting-arms may be turned inward toward each other, as well as rearward, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1; but this construction is not essential.

It is apparent that the sheet-metal lever B and body-plate C may assume a Variety of forms and also that the wire bar and its supporting-arms may be varied in form. I would therefore have it understood that I do not liinit inyself to the exact construction herein shown, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of myinvention. I am aware, however, that it is old in suspender-buckles to employ a sheet-metal body-plate and a sheetmetal lever and to pivotally suspend the latter upon a wire bar which is supported by being clasped. by fingers turned over upon it from the ends or sides of the plate, and I do not claim that construction broadly.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a sheet-metal buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal body-plate provided at its ends with fingers and having its lower portion set back of the plane of its upper portion, and formed with a long, narrow opening which receives the end of the webbing which is thus attached to the buckle, of a sheet-metal lever, and a wire bar upon which the said lever is pivotally mounted, and which is formed with short, downward-extending supporting-arms clasped by the said fingers of the body-plate, and having their lower ends turned rearward for engagement with the shoulder of the bodyplate formed by setting the lower portion thereof back of its upper portion as described, whereby the said arms are locked against upward movement, and whereby the webbing is prevented from being chafed by or fouled upon them.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAS. F. MOLLOY.

\Vitnesses:

O. A. MENGE, THOS. F. MOLLOY. 

